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ASPIRES - FHI 360,

The Accelerating Strategies for Practical Innovation and Research in Economic Strengthening project (ASPIRES) is a USAID- and PEPFAR-funded cooperative agreement implemented by FHI 360 that supports evidence-based, gender-sensitive programming to

Eric Hartman, Better Volunteering Better Care - Matador Network,

This video is part of the Better Volunteering Better Care Initiative’s month-long spread of articles aimed at raising awareness around the issues of orphanage volunteering. The 3-minute video summarizes the research on how and why orphanage trips are harmful to children.

Mark Canavera - Children & Society Volume 30, (2016) pp. 356–368,

The research in this study explores how systems strengthening approaches promoted by humanitarian agencies are perceived to have transpired in South Sudan during the country’s transition to independence. 

Barbie Savior Blog,

This post is part of the Better Volunteering Better Care Initiative’s month-long spread of articles aimed at raising awareness around the issues of orphanage volunteering. The post explains the harms of orphanage tourism.

Better Volunteering Better Care - Better Care Network & Save the Children UK,

This consultancy project consists of a 3 month period to further research and develop plans for a youth-led media campaign in the UK, USA, and Australia.

Global Social Service Workforce Alliance,

 This report includes a summary of each of the panel discussions at the symposium, as well as the questions asked, and provides the text of the opening and closing remarks from the event.

Jordanna J. Nash & Robert J. Flynn - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study investigated the widely-used but under-researched program for training resource parents (i.e., foster, adoptive, or kinship parents) known as preservice PRIDE (Parent Resources for Information, Development and Education). The sample consisted of 174 participants in Ontario, Canada.

Amy J.L. Baker, Alyssa Creegan, Alexa Quinones, Laura Rozelle - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study sought to answer whether children – who have alternative caregiving options - will still express attachment to their maltreating parent. 

J.J. Cutulia, Robert M. Goerge, Claudia Coulton, Maryanne Schretzman, David Crampton, Benjamin J. Charvat, Nina Lalich, Jessica A. Raitheld, Cristobal Gacitua, Eun Lye Lee - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study documents the rates at which children involved with foster care [in the United States] enter the juvenile justice system (crossover or dually involved), and the factors associated with this risk. 

Catou MacKinnon - CBC News,

A small town in Quebec, Canada called Kangiqsualujjuaq - a primarily Inuit town with a population of 900 people - has instituted a new program called the Qarmaapik Family House. The program was developed in response to news that the town had more children in foster care than any other community in Nunavik.